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A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'
Jose Saramago
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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.
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For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.
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Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...
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The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.
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We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
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Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
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Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
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The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
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When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
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A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
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... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.
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I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
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Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.
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Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.
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anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly
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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
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It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.
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There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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